You would have thought he was a grand duke or a pasha punishing a slave--and the funniest thing about it is that he believes he is a pasha.

Oh--I have no patience with such contemptible family pride, and that's what is at the bottom of it." Some of the back county aristocrats, on the other hand--men who lived by themselves, who took their cue from Alexander Hamilton, Lee, and Webb, and believed in the code as the only means of arbitrating a difficulty of any kind between gentlemen--stoutly defended the Lord of Moorlands.
"Rutter did perfectly right to chuck the young whelp out of doors.
Outrageous, sir--never is done--nothing less than murder.

Ought to be prosecuted for challenging a man under his own roof--and at night too.
No toss-up for position, no seconds except a parcel of boys.

Vulgar, sir--infernally vulgar, sir.

I haven't the honor of Colonel Rutter's acquaintance--but if I had I'd tell him so--served the brat right--damn him!" Richard Horn was equally emphatic, but in a far different way.